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Show SECTION nrnMiirsr. iuj Falcons Enjoy Finest Hour d. 71 A In Longtime V H5 Darts Slip In The End; Take Third p. - tfKftM Dl Unfortunately (or the LAYTON Dart wtevihrg lews, the hompwff to dint the lauer stages fed the them thr?v Tournament, simply ! Witv&pf Lajton ran out on them. v DUNCAN mi Wca I A TON A chjnff ef in ttbjun, ttMRhdf J i!h (Tcflk!d' '!, m if ttufRfiuBtfciji tiuf4. if I Ana tern ta iLfeir finiM in MU CCnd in !3iPf JCatt. It hir thorn-piomhi- m TUB f.RlV'8I8D la)Un H.h Ttww mcni. f3fr.y hreammj tme of the f,tet pitp rt:ltn$ocnt in I He uie.wa ihe cnmj fur it I Avn imireMe , Despite (he Ui that Reran One neueomcr, Bax Ltdcr, UttmnuicJ ihe meet wnh 163A puiM. it wa Clearfield wha ufpricd a kH of pearlc, themwKc. to come a ay with the MaondfUc tftrhy. The Taken totalled up 139 tournament, HmU during the iwu-daenough to outdistance third place finisher. Oasis High who ended with 133 points. Clearfield, led by the veteran Scott Tennis, placed sis wrestlers in a fourth place finish or higher. Three Falcons. Wane Estep, Shad Ragan and Tom Wood, each won individual championships during last Saturday nights championship round. The three individual titles happened to be more than any of the other 15 entered clubs could muster. JEST MOMENTS before the Saturday evening championship round got underway. Coach Tennis conveyed that hed changed his philosophy of coaching in comparison to past years. The change appears for certain and perhaps was one reason for Clearfields emergence in the tournament. Tennis stated, Mentally as a coach, I think Ive been able to forget about the score or our placing in a tournament ora match. In the past Ive found myself so occupied with how we stood, that it literally drove me crazy. Lj twif 1 in Ihe light weights was Davis beat Luc Hjde 9-who Shawn Robinson Tournament ,MP 19 Champion Shad Ragans j tf Clearfield. Nat this Motpn wievtlcf wthis way ' to the title. y THE ONLY thing Im concerned with anymore. is that our kids wrestle the very best they can. In this tournament, weve had some kids that didnt even place, but wrestled some great matches. Kids that were maybe junior varsity, came in and got some pins and wrestled great. Tve been able to concentrate on my kids, rather than clutter my mind with how we stacked up with everyone else. Ill admit in the past I got so nervous about things like that that I couldnt even see straight and quickly began losing by objectivity. MAYBE AN example of it might be likened , to the injury that Randy Shelley sustained earlier in the year. Wed figured on Randy really helping us but he popped his knee out and may be lost for the year. My first thoughts were, who are we going to get to replace him? But I should have been thinking about Randy instead. the fact hes a great kid and needs the opportunity to wrestle. Needless to say. Ive gone home in the past few months and done some evaluating. ROBINSON AND Hyde fought their way to the championship match, having never met in regular prep wrestling. Hyde had beaten but this was to be ihe Robinson in free-styfirst of probably many meetings between the two in Utah high school wrestling competition. Robinson got the first takedown with 1.02 left in the first period and that seme stood through the final minute of the first frame. Layton's Rodney Rkntjcs is about to deal his Granger opponent a sure death as the former was seconds away from a pin. Rodney finished third in the 19 class. 1 THE MEET'S announcer predicted the come February. I was lucky a few times, said Davis Robinson, "And 1 have to give a lot of credit to' Eric, hes the best thing Ive ever wrestled. FROM HYDE came the following,' Theres not a whole lot I can say, only that weII probably meet a few more times this s- THE NEXT Clearfield title came from three-yea- r letterman. Shad Ragan, who dealt his Pleasant Grove opponent, an 4 loss. Ragan end of the second got out to a 0 lead at the The victory the for on held victory. and period 23-came over an opponent who went 1 last year and is the defending freestyle champion. me as a Maybe things didnt mean as much to said Ragan do now, as right they sophomore, after the win. This is my last year and I want to push as hard as I can. where he left Ragan is continuing to pick up fourth in he where placed off last February, Clearfield out in put victory ptate. Ragans front of Davis for good in the race for second 8-- 5-- Continued next page 1 j jr xf ' w?. , riH ' or, ..c Jim Kopecky, father for former Clearfield great, Doug and the present Falcon, Todd, urges Falcons through the Layton Tournament. AN EXAMPLE is the Laytons Brian Bailey climbs aboard Spanish Fork opponent. Bailey wrestled and lost in finals. Layton Wrestling Hansens Grew Finish Fifth SAID ESTEP about the Smoot match, We should have met in the finals, but he got a bad break in the seeding. Im sure hell want me the next time we meet. It may end up like my 8-- 1. year." And Hyde was right. Both he and ' Robinson will square off again this Thursday in 7' Kaysville in a dual match between the two schools. The two will most likely meet several , 7 more times in scheduled tournaments through- - ., : . ,A out the year. Robinson also went on to say, I also have " to give Coach (Jim) Dickson a lot of credit. He " has helped make me aware of all the mistakes I . , make during my matches, times when its com-.- " 7 , 7 j pletely impossible for me to do it. pr' 6-- oppo- fu- ture like itll probably be, saying, Look for these two in the state championship finals ls rivalry with (Donny) Zamora last year. In the championship Estep pinned his nent in the second round after leading JUST AS Robinson was closing in on a near fall, Hyde reversed. But as quick as that happened, Shawn was back on top himself and then scored a near fall before the second frame was history. with two minutes remaining, Behind 6-Hyde opened the last period by getting Robinson in a near fall position, but Robinson escaped and look Hyde down one more time to win 9-4. nt OTHER CLEARFIELD kids that placed last weekend were Dusty McMullin (4th) at 105; Mike Sorensen (3rd) at 167 and finally the heavyweight Dennis Langford who finished third. , Estep, the fiesty and competitiveseim-finahad his toughest match in the when he met with Box Elders Smoot. A number of observers called it one of the best matches of the tournament. Estep came away a 2 winner with Smoots only two points coming off penalties on Estep. TUB PARTS, In the lunninf for the title through mo! of the weekend, had fivter p come their way In the constdaiwn and round Saturday evenint si only wrest kr to tit won and advanced to pve the Durtt tome medt needed point . Consequently Cot Elder went on in win the early bod tournament, Clearfield H gh took second and the Darts had to be contend with thud pUet. The Bees wound op wiih 163$ points, Clear-fiel- d had 139 and Davis was nett with 133. But the one ihininf moment for Davis came with Shawn Robinson's crowd pleasing match victory over Layton's Erie Hyde In the 112 pound category. LAYTON - Year in and year out, it never fails to find Layton High at or near the top in -- tourprep wrestling. And with the first major now completed, its nament of the new year find the Mike all to at a not really surprise Hansen-le- d Lancers among the top finishers. THE LANCERS, despite sending three wrestlers into the Saturday night championship round and who all lost, still were able to finish fifth in their own Layton High tournament. Box Elder claimed the 1983 event, dethroning the Lancers who won the title last season. of the quality coaches in the mentor at Layton, again did veteran and a state a superb job in organizing the Layton Tournaand ment which fielded 16 teams from two-da- y reevent the Many coaches at as one of the and tourney coming garded the up finest in the entire state. The Layton team entered this year, may HANSEN, ONE 4-- 2-- t 3-- would have been a different match, said Hyde who was able to reverse against all his other opponents with ease. Both are seniors and as the announcer stated when the match was over, Dont be surprised to find these two guys in the state championship. Hyde THE FIRST Layton entry into the Saturday showed a ton of class after the match, by walknight finals was Eric Hyde. His opponent just ' ing up to Robinson and giving him a friendly couldnt be any tougher in Davis Shawn hug. Robinson. The two squared off in the bracket and went the full AFTER HYDE, two talented Layton juniors before Robinson came away with a 4 victory. made it into the finals, but both of them lost to a To watch Hyde and Robinson go after each pair of seniors. Brian Bailey other may have been like two highly trained The first junior was electronic technicians trying to outdo each who lost to Ben Lomonds Ryan Hislop, the other. The skill and technique in that match son of Weber States Chick Hislop. Bailey and alone was shoulders and heads above all the Hislop were pretty agressive but the former rest. found himself in trouble late in the opening period and lost by a pin. ROBINSON got the first takedown and nevNEXT ON the mat was Brett Higgs who lost er trailed after that, even though the match was quite close until the final few seconds. If I'd been able to get a reversal early, it have lacked the experience that last years club had but Coach Hansen said in defense, Time is our greatest friend. T e more matches these kids get in, the better things will be for everyone. 112-pou- es 9-- 138-pou- Continued next page 4 I use in takedowns. A lot of guys were giving me trouble on it because they wouldnt back stagger-stanc- e go and forth, but would go from side to side. Coach Dickson then taught me to square up with my stance, which has made me much more effective on my feet. If I hadnt of learned that, I probably wouldnt have been able to take Hyde down like I did. A lot of my success has come from listening to coach. For his impressive victory over Hyde in the1 finals, Robinson was voted by the coaches as the outstanding wrestler in the lower weights. BESIDES Robinson, three other Davis athletes found themselves in the finals, includ- roj ing Derek Green at 105, Greg McNabb at 185.. I edJ and Rody Meacham in the heavyweight class. '"'IIjoj Green, a junior, trailed 1 entering the final n' ,JJ0? period of his championship bout with Spanish " nioq Fork opponent but made a valiant comeback 7 ,o!d t,ne and lost - 6-- 6-- 4. ' , GREG McNABB met a Skyline opponent in his championship quest. The score was knot-'-te- d at 2 entering the final period before the Eagle wrestler escaped and got a takedown. Greg was slowly broken down before getting pinned with 36 seconds left in the match. Jn the heavyweight class, Rody Meacham was pinned by a Granger opponent with just 59-seconds remaining in the first period. Prior to Rody had looked fairly impressive working himself into the championship round. 1 ' 2-- B oi r ff 3 0 ticJZ - BOTH BRUCE Hinckley, junior and Mike Gerrard, senior, were beaten in the consola-'- , tion round and had to settle for fourth places.'' The Davis wrestlers that did not place in the top four were Scott Schriver, Mike Price, Andy Coulter, Vaughn Casdorph and Todd Anderson. f,3 ! 3111 Tjm ;::T - -- SS |
